The iPad, Gestures, and Community
February 18th, 2010
Multitouch and gestural input needs community consensus on meaning and representation.
View CommentsChatRoulette, Elevators, and Panopticons
February 17th, 2010
ChatRoulette is blowing up. Mostly with naked dudes, it seems. Let’s try some crowdsourced course-correction.
View CommentsOn Storytelling
February 16th, 2010
Sure, it’s Chip Kidd’s nightmare and neglects entire sub-genres of modern literature, but to me, the relative homogenization of story formats on the Kindle is great. It’s making me read more often and with less prejudice.
View CommentsKindle vs Apple iPad
January 25th, 2010
Many have chimed in, ahead of the Apple tablet announcement, on whether the new Apple device will be a “Kindle killer”
View CommentsUX in Bed
August 21st, 2009
One of the questions I ask when working on a new project is, “Where will people use this?”
View CommentsMicrosoft Deprecating IE6 the Right Way
August 12th, 2009
Microsoft Office web apps will not officially support IE6. But they also won’t block it.
View CommentsMy iPhone User Experience Book!
August 10th, 2009
It’s shorter than I would have liked, and took longer to write, but it’s nice to have it in my hands.
View CommentsDon’t Stop Supporting IE6
August 6th, 2009
Planning to drop support for IE 6? Instead, redefine “support” and stay positive.
View CommentsDeath of the Apple Halo Effect?
August 3rd, 2009
Every iPhone and iPod Touch owner I know hates iTunes. Apple should take notice.
View CommentsAugmented Reality Bites
July 30th, 2009
I have this new rule I’m working on: If it’s easier to buy your product than to engage with your marketing, you’re doing it wrong.
View CommentsTwitter: 1, Robots: 0
July 29th, 2009
With the insanity around the Yahoo and Bing/Microsoft relationship, I wonder if Twitter – or an app built around it – won’t become the search and recommendation tool we all really want.
View CommentsiPhone Apps are Not Banner Ads
July 27th, 2009
Installing an iPhone app is work. If you make users work, you owe them something valuable.
View CommentsIs Google Ruining Mobile Advertising?
July 10th, 2009
Admittedly, my opinion is that mobile advertising should shrivel up and die. That said, if it’s going to exist, the UX should be at least tolerable and, preferably, stellar.
View CommentsMobile Designers and Empathy
July 6th, 2009
I think the growing importance of mobile devices in our everyday lives can give a new perspective on baseline users, perhaps leading to more time spent providing amazing, elegant assistive applications and reducing the importance placed on gimmicks.
View CommentsBadge Blindness and iPhone Push Notifications
June 16th, 2009
Don’t flood devices with flippant text or audio push notifications. Understand the disruptive impact of those messages and avoid them unless they are absolutely necessary. And repeat this mantra: “Push notifications are rarely necessary!”
View CommentsPreaching iPhone UX
May 19th, 2009
I have spent a fair portion of the last year preaching good UX for iPhone developers.
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